About

Hello, and welcome to my blog! I am just a girl who is wholeheartedly following Him through the green pastures and beside the still waters. 🙂 If you want to call me by a name, my username is Following Him, my nickname is Penelope, and my real first name is Grace. Whichever you want to call me, I’ll respond to it. 😉

As you may have guessed, the blog’s name was inspired by Psalms 23, one of my favorite of the Psalms:

1: The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2: He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3: He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5: Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

You’ll find all sorts of random stuff here. I really like to read, so you may find Christian book reviews (some books may be secular at times), some artwork and photos of mine, poetry I’ve written, and some deep thoughts about my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 🙂

The header image for this page was taken at my grandma’s lake with my dad’s tripod and my camera’s timer function. It would have been perfect had my socks not twisted up, but oh well. XD

If you want to talk, just use the little comment box down there, or use the newly created contact page located here. 😉

Hi Hannah! 😀 Thank you for the nomination! I’m so honored! I have been nominated before, but I still appreciate you nominating me so much. 🙂 (I’ve also seen some bloggers accept twice, so I suppose I can do this twice, if I can think of 7 more random facts about myself. XD )
Awwww! **blushes** And thank you for being amazing! ♥

Hello! I love the name of your blog! Psalm 23 is my favorite. There was a time in my life when I was extremely ill and my husband would read it to me. I found so much comfort in those words.
I can’t wait to start reading your blog!

Thanks so much for stopping by The Ruminant Scribe. I pray that the site was encouraging, challenging and maybe even entertaining. I am humbled that you would take time to visit the site, thank you so much. I look forward to your return and to learning more about you and your Christian walk.

And thank you for stopping by Following Him Beside Still Waters! 🙂 I did enjoy reading your blog and I look forward to coming by again; it was indeed all three of the words you mentioned. 😊 Glad you stopped by! ♥

Hi! I saw you had looked at some of my posts, so I checked out your blog! It’s super neat, and I love your header image!!! 🙂 I’m K.A, as you most likely guessed, ( 😉 ) and I have a lot of animals! 😀 Hehe! But if you’ve looked at my blog, you probably already figured that out! Haha! I have two pigs, 5 dogs, a horse, and three fish, but our family has cows, horses, dogs, chickens, goats, and cats! 🙂 Thanks for looking at my blog!

Hi! 😀 Yeah, I did; I love your blog!
Aww, thank you so much! 🙂 ♥
I love cuddly critters and yours are so adorable! 😍 Wow, you have a lot of animals; I thought my 17 cats and one dog was a lot… 😂 That is so cool! I’ve always wanted something besides dogs or cats, and I hope to someday. 🙂 I used to have chickens and I loved them so much!
And thank you for looking at mine! 🙂

I just realized your Gravatar photo is a moth. That’s so cool that it has a cross on it! For some reason I never paid close attention to it and thought it was a shark tooth or something with scrimshaw on it. 😂 What type of moth is it?

LOL, a shark tooth with a scrimshaw on it would be cool too. 😂 Someone recently identified the moth as a Clymene moth. Until then, I had no idea! But yeah, it is so cool that it has a cross design; I’ve never seen a moth like this until last year and I haven’t seen one since!

Oh, that’s cool! I just checked, it lives in my state, although I’ve never seen one before. I used to be really into collecting an raising caterpillars, so I got to learn a lot about different types of moths and butterflies, but I never heard of a Clymene moth!

Yeah, it was really cool. One summer I had watched a black swallowtail lay its eggs on some carrot plants. So I collected about 30 of them. I got to see the eggs being laid, the caterpillars hatching out of their eggs, shedding their skin, turning into their chrysalises, hatching out, and flying away! It was so cool to have the opportunity to watch the whole process. Watching them turn into their chrysalis is fascinating. They attach themselves to a stick, and then after a couple days they shed their outer skin. Underneath is the chrysalis. The process of shedding their skin only takes a minute or so. So the only reason I got to witness the process was due to the fact that I raised so many and had the opportunity to watch and wait. They’re were so many of them that I knew they would shed soon, and I’d sit in my room for hours keeping a half an eye on it and waiting. Most of the time I missed it because it happened so fast. Same with them coming out of their chrysalises. The chrysalises would turn transparent the day they were going to hatch, but it only took maybe 10 seconds or so for them to crack it open and come out. I think I only managed to see two actually come out.

Wow, how lucky!!! 😀 You saw the whole process! That is so exciting! 😀
Oh, that is really awesome! I wondered how they made their chrysalis. 😀 I thought it would take a while so that is really surprising that it doesn’t take long at all for them to shed their skin or come out of the cocoon!
How long did it take to go from egg to butterfly? And what did you feed them?

I journaled the whole process (although I can’t find it, right now 😕), but it didn’t take too long. I’d say less than a month to go from egg to chrysalis. As long as the chrysalis wasn’t made to late in the season (where it’d have to over-winter), I think it was only the matter of a couple weeks before they hatched. I’ll let you know if I find my journal and give you a more accurate time.

I actually did find my journal. Amazingly the whole process only takes 30 so days! That’s from hatching out of the egg to hatching out of the chrysalis. But yeah, they can last the winter. The ones that overwinter are the ones that will hatch in the spring and be responsible for the next generation of butterflies that year. Although, sadly I think I had one or two that never hatched 😦

Hi Grace. It is so nice to meet you. We are so pleased you found our site so we in turn could find yours. We too love the Lord and look forward to following along with you and seeing the world through your pictures and words.

I had to stop by when I saw your title. Psalm 23 is one of my favorites too. You might enjoy reading my blog post, “A Psalm for Living”. It is of course on Psalm 23. I look forward to visiting with you more.

Amen-Amein Sister 💜💕 in Christ Jesus-Yeshua!! God Bless you Sister in Christ Jesus-Yeshua and Your Family members and Friends!!

Praise Jesus-Yeshua Christ for Today and Everyday Forevermore, HE is KING of kings and LORD ( ADONAI ) of lords, HE is the ALPHA and OMEGA, HE is the BEGINNING and the END!! Glory Glory Hallelujah and Maranatha!!

Our ONE True GOD’S LOVE 💕💜 is ETERNAL THROUGH HIS SON Jesus-Yeshua Christ for Today and Everyday Forevermore!!

Blessed to find another Christian blog! Psalm 23 is the first chapter of the Bible that I memorized since Grade 5. We were asked by our teacher in our English subject to memorize it and then recite it before the class.

Since then, this psalm never left my memory. I never understood how profound its meaning until I became an adult and eventually a Christian.

This is the Psalm of my life. I find myself automatically reciting it everytime I am facing a trial.

I would like to talk to you..Your blog is really amazing..the pics you are sharing with your readers are simply wonderful since its all from the creator.And He is using you as an outstanding instrument to share all those with us..Please do continue with all…

Dave Peever at Live4Him reposted one of your articles and that’s how I found your site! I get inspiration and encouragement from a lot of sites and since I believe that we are ALL members of the Body of Christ with our own gifts to offer, when I have been inspired, encouraged or instructed, part of my ministry is to let others know who is out there doing the Lord’s work and serving His people.
With that in mind, I have just added your link to my Blogs Followed page. You need do nothing in return, nothing at all. If however you would rather not be associated with my site, for any reasons, no questions asked (no hurt feelings) just let me know and I will remove the link.
God bless you richly and abundantly as you continue to use what God has not just given you, but inspired you with so that others may be blessed as well and the Lord Jesus Christ, served!! 😉